Zonites goldfussi is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Zonitidae.MolluscaBase eds. (2023). MolluscaBase. Zonites goldfussi Westerlund, 1890. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: on 2023-12-03
Description The diameter of the shell is 35 mm, the length attains 38 mm.
(Original description in Latin) The shell is openly umbilicated and orbicularly depressed, featuring a sculpture of coarse, somewhat irregular, and densely packed striae. These striae are transversely rugose, while the spiral sculpture is barely conspicuous.
The shell is reddish on the upper surface and olive-green beneath, encircled above the periphery by a narrow, poorly defined brown band.
The spire is only slightly elevated. It consists of 5 1/2 whorls that increase quite rapidly in size; these are somewhat convex and are separated by a well-impressed suture. The body whorl is nearly twice as wide as the penultimate; it is obsoletely angled above the middle and appears somewhat depressed at first, though it becomes more convex at the base. The aperture is large, broadly ovate, and lunate in shape. The peristome is simple, with the basal margin exhibiting a more pronounced curve.Kobelt, Wilhelm, Martini, Friedrich Heinrich Wilhelm, Chemnitz, Johann Hieronymus, Pfeiffer, Louis (Ludwig Georg Karl), Die Familie der Heliceen : fünfte Abtheilung, Nürnberg, Verlag von Bauer & Raspe (Emil Küster), 1905; ;
Distribution This species was found in Anatolia, Turkey.
References
Westerland, Fauna palaearet. Binnenconch. Suppl. p. 164 Riedel, A. (1987). Revision der Gattung Zonites Montfort (Gastropoda, Zonitidae): türkische Arten. Nebst Ergänzungen und Verzeichnis aller Zonites-Arten. Annales Zoologici, 41 (1): 1-42, pl. 1–9. Warszawa
External links Hesse, P. (1914). Kritische Fragmente. X. Zur Nomenclatur. XI. Trochomorpha sabaea Marts. XII. Zonites goldfussi Wstld. 1890). Nachrichtsblatt der Deutschen Malakozoologischen Gesellschaft. 46(2): 59-64. Frankfurt am Main